Slow Wave Sleep in Elderly Depressed, Demented, and Healthy Subjects
Open Access
- 1 June 1985
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Sleep
- Vol. 8 (2) , 155-159
- https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/8.2.155
Abstract
The application of automated analysis in the measurement of sleep electroencephalogram delta activity allows a more precise temporal description of slow wave sleep changes in normal and pathological aging than do standard, all-night, slow wave sleep measures. Thus, with a baseline crossing technique, elderly depressives were shown to have a higher delta count per minute during the second NREM sleep period than did controls or demented subjects. This difference reflected greater activity per minute in the 2-3 Hz frequency band (75-200 microV).Keywords
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